Title :
A Level Set Method for Vessel Segmentation in Coronary Angiography
Author :
Brieva, J. ; Gonzalez, E. ; Gonzalez, F. ; Bousse, A. ; Bellanger, J.J.
Author_Institution :
Departemento de Electron., ITESM, Mexico City
Abstract :
This paper presents a level set technique to extract the vascular structures in coronary angiography. It makes use of the Mumford-Shah functional to extract contours that are not necessary defined by gradient. A shape artery simulator was implemented to test and evaluate the detection method. Experimental results are presented on simulated data and real images successively
Keywords :
angiocardiography; blood vessels; image segmentation; medical image processing; Mumford-Shah functional; contour extraction; coronary angiography; level set method; shape artery simulator; vascular structure extraction; vessel segmentation; Active contours; Angiography; Arteries; Biological system modeling; Data mining; Deformable models; Image edge detection; Lesions; Level set; Object detection;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615949
